Episode 16 ~ Hari Budha Magar MBE and Justin Oliver Davies, double lower limb amputees aiming to summit Everest.

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Written By Chris Shirley MA FRGS

In episode 16, I interview Hari Budha Magar and Justin Oliver Davies, a pair of double lower-limb amputees aiming to summit Mount Everest.

In the episode recorded in 2021, they tell me about their experience climbing Kilimanjaro, the narrow bosses ridgeline on the way to the Mont Blanc summit, the difficulties of finding prosthetics for mountaineering, and how they plan to tackle the challenge of summiting Mount Everest!

 

Special thanks to Alec Seaman and Darren Coventry for helping to record the audio for this interview.

 

How to find them

 

https://www.haribudhamagar.com

 

https://www.justinoliverdavis.com

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About the Author:

Chris is the founder of Hiatus.Design, a cost-effective branding and website design company that works with clients all over the world.

Over the course of his life, he has travelled to more than 60 countries across six continents, earned two Guinness World Records, completed the legendary Marathon des Sables, summited Mont Blanc and unclimbed peaks in Asia, become a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and obtained a Masterʼs degree in Business Management (MA).

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